Hello, Mr Chips: the fish shop photographer – in pictures

Hello, Mr Chips: the fish shop photographer – in pictures

Having run his fish-and-chip shop in Iffley Road, Oxford, for 25 years, in 2014 Kazem Hakimi decided to start photographing his customers. “I’ve been in the shop for a long time,” Hakimi says, “and I know the customers and when I saw the variety of people who live here I thought, why don’t I show this?” He hopes that the resulting photography series OX4, named after the shop’s postcode, captures the area’s diversity. And how do his customers react to being asked to pose? “People are surprised,” he says, “but generally they are very obliging because they know me.” Nevertheless, he admits that juggling both roles can be challenging. “I take the photographs very quickly in one minute, because I have to go back to the cooking!”

Katy Fallon

Saturday 16 July 2016 12.00 EDT

The Sister

“There is a nunnery near my shop and this is a dear sister from the convent. They often come in and buy chips from us.”